Paintings; Oil paintings; Photographs; Activists; Left-wing extremists; Terrorists; Dead persons; Death; Suicides; Social justice; Political issues; Politics & government; Protest movements; Opposition (Political science); Student movements;...
"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
"[…] Vija Celmins uses nature as a starting point. In her re-creations of the heavens and earth, Celmins prods the viewer into an expanded awareness of both her sources and the process of artistic vision. […] In 1968 Celmins's preferred...
"Alongside his own production of visual poetry, which took the form of silkscreen prints as well as inscribed objects, Finlay was significant for his involvement in the 'small press' publishing activities associated with the alternative poetry...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Maps; Industrialization; Industry; Economic & social conditions; Social aspects; Industrial arbitration; Social classes; Wealth; Poverty; Economic & industrial aspects
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural...
Film stills; Motion pictures; Processes & techniques; Time; Falling; Metals; Hands; Fingers; Body parts; Locomotion; Human locomotion
"This 3-minute 30-second film, like others produced by Serra in the same year, related to a famous 'verb list' which he compiled in 1967-8. The verb involved in this instance is 'to grasp' but the list also included 'to roll, to crease, to...
"This is an early example of Buren's use of stripe motifs in a public context. He has continued the practice to the present. For instance, in 1997 in Munster, Germany, his contribution to a festival of site-specific sculpture consisted of...
"This is an early example of Buren's use of stripe motifs in a public context. He has continued the practice to the present. For instance, in 1997 in Munster, Germany, his contribution to a festival of site-specific sculpture consisted of...
Sculpture; Electric signs; Electric lighting; Lighting; Lamps; Light bulbs; Names; Artists' signatures; Language; Anamorphic images
"This relates to another work of 1968, My Name As Though It Were Written on the Surface of the Moon, also in neon. The latter, slightly more legibly, reads: 'bbbbbbrrrrrruuuuuucccccceeeeee'. It has been suggested that it may have been a...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
A group of women sit and stand in rows at the end of a women decorated for a banquet. Caption: Louisville Girls High School 50th Anniversary. Pendennis Club. June 8, 1968.
Fraternities & sororities; Students; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Student housing; Theatrical productions
A group of young women, perhaps Pi Beta Phi pledges, participate in the TKE skit contest as part of fraternity rush festivities, October 2, 1968. People: Marilyn Harvin.
Fraternities & sororities; Students; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Student housing; Theatrical productions
A group of young women, perhaps Pi Beta Phi pledges, participate in the TKE skit contest as part of fraternity rush festivities, October 2, 1968. People: Marilyn Harvin.
Drum majorettes; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Football; Cardinal Stadium (Louisville, Ky.)
A majorette twirling a blazing baton during the halftime show at the University of Louisville-Tulsa football game at Fairgrounds Stadium on October 12, 1968. University of Louisville won, 16-7.
A man and a woman stand on the football field surrounded by band members and others. This is part of the presentation of the University of Louisville homecoming court during halftime of the University of Louisville game against Kent State, played...
A man and a woman stand together on the football field surrounded by band members and others, including a majorette who twirls her baton in the foreground. This is part of the presentation of the University of Louisville homecoming court during...
A man and a woman stand together on the football field surrounded by band members and others. This is part of the presentation of the University of Louisville homecoming court during halftime of the football game against Kent State played at...
A man and woman (possibly J.P. Fraley and his wife Annadeene, who also works as Thomas' assistant) play fiddle and guitar, and two little girls play mountain dulcimer, at the ceremonies celebrating the donation of the Jean Thomas collection to the...
A man and woman stand on the field surrounded by band members and others. This is part of the presentation of the University of Louisville homecoming court during halftime of the football game against versus Kent State, played at Fairgrounds...
